{"id":1305,"date":"2013-11-05T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2013-11-05T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:09:07","slug":"abby-keep-in-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2013\/11\/05\/abby-keep-in-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby: Keep In Touch!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The other day I was catching up with my best friend from high school whom I hadn\u2019t talked to in a couple of weeks. I was telling her about some problem that came up which I had stressed over, but by the time I was filling her in the issue was resolved and old news.\u00a0 She said, \u201cAbby! Why didn\u2019t you tell me this happened?!\u201d<\/p>\n

And I asked myself the same question. An outside opinion would have helped me so much and gave my Boston-centric issue a fresh perspective (And it is always great to catch up with friends). Sometimes you get caught up in the BU bubble of lectures, studying, dining hall lunches and roommates that it is really easy to forget about the other aspects of your life.\u00a0 I think it is so important to keep in touch with family and loved-ones and they are equally grateful to be kept in the loop.\u00a0 With things like iPhones, and Facebook and Skype it is so easy to iChat your mom in Florida on your walk home from class, IM your best friend studying abroad in Dublin, Skype with your boyfriend abroad in Morocco and then call your family who lives in New Orleans.\u00a0 Old school snail-mail is also a thoughtful and often overlooked way of keeping in touch.\u00a0 I just sent an actual letter to my great Aunt who doesn\u2019t have a cell phone and she was so grateful to be kept in the know about what I\u2019m up to in college.\u00a0 Sometimes things can get overwhelming when you text a friend to tell them to get on Facebook so you can send them a link to a video another friend saw on Twitter and then emailed you about.\u00a0 So be careful to not get overwhelmed and only reach out when and for how long you want to.\u00a0 If it takes you a day to respond to a text that is absolutely fine.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure your loved one will appreciate it no matter what.<\/p>\n

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Technology really does amaze me. Morocco is 3,515 miles away. I\u2019m surprised I even get to see a picture.<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t how it is every week, but sometimes you just have to call your Mom four or five times in one day. (We were making holiday plans and I kept losing the call in the elevator. That\u2019s my excuse and I\u2019m sticking to it, okay?)<\/p>\n

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The other day I was catching up with my best friend from high school whom I hadn\u2019t talked to in a couple of weeks. I was telling her about some problem that came up which I had stressed over, but by the time I was filling her in the issue was resolved and old news.\u00a0 … Continue reading Abby: Keep In Touch!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44302,3892,257,1613],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}